Governments spend billions fighting fires, rebuilding communities, compensating disaster victims and treating the growing health burden from climate change. Then those same governments spend billions ...

One of the most important aspects of the images beamed home from space is one we are only beginning to grasp. Look at the pictures, and look again. Zoom way in and only then can you make out the thin ...

One of the most important aspects of the images beamed home from space is one we are only beginning to grasp. Look at the pictures, and look again. Zoom way in and only then can you make out the thin ...

It isn't the target set out in the Paris agreement, the amount of carbon in the atmosphere or the record-breaking string of record-hot years. Now, climate scientists have released a figure that sounds...

Instead of sowing doubt about the science of climate change and denying the need for a green transition, the industries and their promoters play for time. They might even acknowledge the need for chan...

Even as we rail in outrage at Donald Trump’s tariffs, the Canadian government has imposed our own punishingly high tariffs on Chinese vehicles — high enough to ensure they are kept out of Canada and t...

Last year, the global concentration of carbon dioxide jumped by 3.5 parts per million (ppm) and reached 424 ppm, the biggest jump since modern measurements began in the 1950s. The WMO says the blanket...

With its landmark ruling, the International Court of Justice has finally offered its first opinion on questions about climate change, concluding that rich, high-polluting countries have a particular o...

There are 72 countries in the world whose landmass is smaller than the amount of hectares of forest that have burned across Canada this year — and wildfire season isn't over yet.

This halfway point to 2050 offers a stark reckoning. We've burned through a quarter century in what feels like a blink. Now, we’re left with the same span in which we had vowed to accomplish what may ...

The decarbonized doublespeak may not be new but it was jarring coming from the mouth of our new PM, who has an undeniable grasp of the impacts of hydrocarbons but nevertheless talked about “decarboniz...

The U.K.’s planet-heating emissions are now the lowest since 1872. That’s not a typo — we’re looking back to a time when Queen Victoria was on the throne, in the place where coal furnaces had fired th...

There’s something strangely reassuring about the genre, even when it’s grim. Such insightful minds struggling with futures that are already arrived but largely invisible; baked in but beyond polite co...